Automotive industry
Automotive industry
MECHANICS
- New shape-memory alloys
- Development of new metal alloys
- New welding processes
- Structural and micro-structural characterization
- Laser micro-manufacturing
- Improved performance of engines and turbochargers
- New materials for fuel cells
- Nanomaterials
- Mechanical resistance studies
ELECTRONICS
- Development of new sensors and actuators
- Design of integrated circuits
- Instrumentation and control micro-systems
- Intelligent measurement and control via signal processing
- Industrial imaging intelligent systems
- Thin-film and thick-film technologies
- Electronic ceramics
- New digital systems
- System modelling and simulation
SURFACE TREATMENTS
- Coating of superconducting materials via thermal spraying
- Dielectric coatings
- Ultra-hard wear resistant coatings
- Electrically insulating or conductive coatings
- Transparent coatings
- New photonic paints and technologies
- New electrochromic and photochromic structures
- Reflective surfaces and cold optics
- Advances in anticorrosive treatments
ENERGY STORAGE
- Fuel cells
- Superconductors
- Gas cells
- Lithium batteries and magnetocaloric effect
- Optical confinement techniques for photovoltaic devices
MATERIALS (MICRO- & NANOSCALE APPLICATIONS)
- Hard, optical and dielectric nanostructured materials
- Silicon nanostructures and their alloys
- Ultrafiltration and separation ceramic membranes
- Amorphous and microcrystalline nanostructured boron nitride thin films
- Dielectric and conductive nanostructured transparent oxide thin films
- Electrochromic materials and nanostructured ionic conductors
ENVIRONMENT – ENERGY
- Reduction of the environmental impact of wastes
- Valorization and inertization of waste materials and subproducts
- New processes for the recycling of materials
- Stabilization of heavy metals in industrial soil
- Search of new materials
- Fuel cell processes
- Crude oil geochemistry and organic petrology
- Geological reserves modelling
EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES
- Electrochemical equipment for the pilot scale production and characterization of coatings in the lab
- High frequency measurement equipment
- Low- and high-temperature gas sensors test station
- Laser materials processing
- Equipment for the production of coatings via thermal spraying
- Electron-beam lithography (EBL)
- Monocrystalline and powder diffractometer
- Surface analysis (ESCA / Auger)
- X-ray diffraction
- Nano- SPM techniques (AFM, STM, Confocal interferometry)
- MET- Applied to materials
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Electron microprobe
- Electronic, mechanical and vacuum technologies. Computer and imaging technology